NLZP

Postgraduate education of other healthcare professionals (NLZP) – medical laboratory technician, general nurse, specialist in laboratory methods

IHBT as an accredited institution of higher type in the field of Clinical Hematology and Transfusion Service enables postgraduate education traineeship for NLZP in specialized departments and laboratories (cytogenetics, flow cytometry, molecular genetics, morphology and cytochemistry, coagulation, immunohematology) as part of specialist training. Furthermore, IHBT has accredited the practical part of specialist module 5 and specialist module 9 of the specialist education program for general nurses – Nursing care in oncology and hematooncology.

Traineeships are conducted based on tripartite agreements between IHBT, the sending organization and the trainee, or bilateral agreements if the trainee is not sent by any organization that covers the costs of the traineeship. More detailed information about agreements can be found here.

In postgraduate education in other fields (virology, molecular genetics, clinical biochemistry), secondary school and university graduates who have the required qualifications in the given fields participate as supervisors.

The role of supervisor for postgraduate medical education is governed by the requirements in Regulation 95/2004 § 20. For NLZP, they are defined in Regulation 96/2004 § 59 (a supervisor can only be a healthcare worker with specialized competence in the relevant field).